The
internet service penetration rate in Romania stands at 89 percent and
connectivity around 60 percent, the National Authority for
Administration and Regulation in Communications - ANCOM President
Catalin Marinescu told a specialist conference oquoted by Agerpress.

"From
a service quality point of view, Romania is on the first place and
this is owed to some historic working conditions of the
communications networks of Romania. With the old networks, the copper
ones, very little developed... the operators' alternative was to
develop their own high-quality networks. They started directly with
optical fiber and now, in Romania, the main Internet service supplier
is an alternative operator, the former state-owned monopoly operator.
This explains why we have very good quality. On the other hand, the
fixed Internet penetration is probably not sufficient. There is a 89
percent penetration and a connectivity somewhere around 60 percent,"
Marinescu said.

He
also showed that the broadband service in Romania is available in
much more places than the percentage of the persons who connect to
these networks.

"The
broadband access market is deregulated, free, and this thing has been
noted. It was noted in the fact that operators have associated to
develop own networks, be them 4G networks or optical fiber. They
associated and this is very important because we cannot afford in
Romania to develop expensive broadband networks, but cheap ones,"
the ANCOM head also showed.